Great & Meaningful Quotes

Alec Penstone WW2 veteran.

“I can see in my mind’s eye those rows and rows of white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their lives. For what? The country of today? No, I’m sorry, but the sacrifice wasn’t worth the result that it is now.”

He added that what they fought for was freedom, and yet now “it’s a darn sight worse than when I fought for it.”

A British WWII Veteran’s Uncomfortable Question | Military.com
 
"We have repeatedly demonstrated our species’ bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good...While it’s to be expected that the human perspective will be changed by encounters with profound new technologies, the exercise of treating machine intelligence as real requires people to reduce their mooring to reality."
~~from You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
 

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